Jacqui Rose

Jacqui Rose is a British crime fiction novelist, and as J. P. Rose, a children's author.

Rose was born in Manchester,^[1] of Jamaican, Nigerian and Anglo-Irish ancestry.^[2] She was adopted as a child, grew up in a Yorkshire village, and trained as an actor, before running prison writing workshops, and then crime fiction.^[1][2]

Rose has written 14 gangland crime thrillers.^[2]

She has collaborated with Martina Cole to co-author Loyalty, which was published in 2023.^[3]

Writing as J. P. Rose, her first children's book, The Haunting of Tyrese Walker was published by Andersen Press in 2023, and has been shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award.^[4][5]

In 2024, Andersen Press published Birdie, her second book for children.^[6] Also in 2024, Rose was a judge for the Jhalak Prize.^[1]

As Jacqui Rose

• Taken (2012)
• Trapped (2013)
• Dishonour (2013)
• Betrayed (2014)
• Avenged (2014)
• Disobey (2015)
• Toxic (2018)
• Fatal (2019)
• Sinner (2019)
• Poison (2020)
• Rival (2020)
• The Streets (2022)
• The Women (2023)

with Martina Cole

• Loyalty (2023)
• Guilty (2024)

As J P Rose

• The Haunting of Tyrese Walker, 2023, Andersen Press
• Birdie, 2024, Andersen Press

References

1. "Our Judges". Jhalak Prize. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
2. "J P Rose | 'Birdie is the child that I wasn't ever brave enough to be. She was always there, such a loud voice in my head'". The Bookseller. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
3. "Loyalty by Martina Cole, Jacqui Rose". www.shakespeareandcompany.com. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
4. "Shortlist 2023 – The Branford Boase Award and The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition". branfordboaseaward.org.uk. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
5. Anderson, Porter (27 April 2023). "The Branford Boase Award Names Its 2023 Shortlist". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
6. "Birdie by J P Rose". Little Toller Books. Retrieved 11 December 2024.